Senior Drupal Developer

Nice to meet you. We’re Soapbox. We’re a creative studio for ideas that matter. We work with forward-thinking organisations to turn knowledge and evidence into social progress. From artificial intelligence to international development; early childhood to climate change, our clients’ work focuses on some of the most important issues of our time.

We’re looking for a highly accomplished back end web developer who wants to work on innovative projects that make a real difference. In this role, you’ll be responsible for part of our growing development team, working directly with clients and the rest of the team to come up with and implement solutions to complex technical problems. You are a key part in ensuring our work always helps our clients reach their goals and follows Drupal standards in a robust and maintainable way..

About you

You have extensive knowledge and experience of Drupal, advanced PHP and MySQL.

• Experience of the other tools is optional but considered a bonus:WordPress, Symfony, Laravel, and other PHP tools.
• Git, Bash, GNU Make, various command line tools, and Apache/nginx servers, DDEV
• Good understanding of advanced objected oriented PHP, namespacing, dependency injection, etc

You are happy reviewing others’ code as well as producing your own, but you’re not afraid to share thorny issues with colleagues in order to work out an optimal solution together.

You stay on top of new trends and innovations in web development and find ways to apply them to your own work.

You have the confidence and communication skills to engage directly with clients and to explain your proposed solutions to them.

You must have fluent written and spoken English.

It would also be nice if

You want to put your skills to work for good - helping socially progressive organisations to communicate online.

You have some experience working for non-profit clients.

What you’ll be doing

You will work as part of a nine-strong in-house team of developers, led by our director of web design & development and three technical leads (WordPress, Drupal, and Front-end leads). You will also collaborate closely with other colleagues, including project managers, digital designers and content strategists.

The main focus of the job is to develop the back end of new websites and other digital products, as well as update existing websites both in terms of maintenance as well as new functionality. Most of our digital projects involve the delivery of an organisation’s main website, but we also build smaller sites and other products, including our products like AI Search, Page to PDF via Puppeteer, etc. You can see many examples of our past work on our website. On occasion you may work in the support desk on a rotational basis across the development team.

We expect all our staff to act autonomously and take responsibility for their own projects – with support when they need it, of course – so they can feel a personal sense of accomplishment when we successfully complete a piece of work. You’ll generally be working on one major project at a time, seeing it through to completion and there may be times where you are responsible for smaller chunks of work on existing sites through the ‘Continuous Improvement’ packages we offer our clients.

The role may be based in either of our two UK studios – in London or in Bath – depending on the successful applicant’s preference.

Almost all our employees now have the option of hybrid working (splitting their time between home and the studio) and we are willing to consider candidates for this role who want to work fully remotely (based in the UK or elsewhere).

We will also be happy to consider requests for other forms of flexible working, such as reduced or compressed hours. (Our normal working week is 37.5 hours split equally over five days.)

About us

We are a flexible and fair employer and our values run through everything we do, from the clients we work with to the way we treat our staff. This has helped us to build a close-knit, hard-working and ambitious team. Many of our colleagues have worked with us for a large part of their career, advancing professionally over their years with us. And our growing roster of clients include many of the world’s leading charities, NGOs and research organisations.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and know that including employees with a diverse range of perspectives and experiences will improve the quality and creativity of the servic…